Workshop on communicating gender data: promoting better use and delivering impactful messages

The Workshop on communicating gender data: promoting better use and delivering impactful messageswas co-organized by UN Women’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and ESCAP Statistics Division. The aim of the workshop was to promote better use of gender data to inform policy making, enhance accountability and track progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. More specifically, the workshop covered topics such as data visualization techniques, media messaging, statistical literacy, advocating with gender data and building effective communication strategies with data.

Workshop documents.

• Session 1: Challenges to communicating gender data
• Session 2a: Strategies to communicate gender data
• Session 2b: Understanding basic concepts of statistical literacy and avoiding common mistakes when communicating gender data
• Session 3a: Communicating gender data for policy-making and beyond
• Session 3b: Key Sources of Gender Statistics in Asia and the Pacific and how to tell which one is best in each case
• Session 4a: Communicating gender data to non-expert audiences
• Session 4b: Crafting data stories
• Session 5: Visualizing gender data
• Session 6: Making gender statistics accessible to the general public
  • Session 6: Building gender data stories
  • Session 6: Liberating data
  • Session 6: UN WOMEN's gender data portal
  • Session 6: Packaging gender data for advocacy on social media
• Session 7: Tackling gender data communication challenges
  • Session 7: Tackling gender data communication challenges
  • Session 7: Guidelines to communicate gender data: who needs what?

Additional Documents

• Directory of participants